Simon Chadli

Right Forward - Bristol City
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The Bristol City Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Bristol City

Sam Morsy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

6 unbeaten for Bristol City

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Bristol City did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Nico Schulz falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

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The Bristol City Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Paulinho Boia

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Bristol City

Max Bird was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

1 academy players handed senior numbers at Bristol City

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Radek Vítek

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

Adam Carter steps up from the Bristol City academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adam Carter has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Luke McNally falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

No hiding place for Luke McNally

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luke McNally, and the manager let it.

Squad

Bristol City pick somebody else ahead of Nico Schulz

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Boardroom

Bristol City turn down the training-ground plan

It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.

In brief

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The Lokeren Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A debut Yannick Tielemans will not forget — 8.06

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 8.06 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Willem II come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Lokeren did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Eyes on Dries De Ketelaere again

The phone has started ringing about Dries De Ketelaere again, and this time the name on the line is Chelsea. Lokeren are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Dries Mignolet raises the bar for Lokeren

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Lokeren heard it as anything else.

Squad

Dries Mignolet in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lokeren this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Yannick Tielemans sends Lokeren past KV Oostende

It finished 3‑1, and it was Yannick Tielemans’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lokeren.

The terraces

Lokeren supporters have found a favourite in Yannick Tielemans

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Yannick Tielemans has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Radja Alderweireld falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

One of those days for Laurent Castagne

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief